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noun

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Recent Examples of lawbreaking
Noun
Chaffin said that even in June, while protests in Los Angeles had drawn thousands of people and were violent, those in Portland were smaller and any lawbreaking was managed by local police. Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lawbreaking
Adjective
  • As Robbie's actions target stash houses run by the notorious Dark Hearts motorcycle gang, a deadly turf war erupts, escalating tensions in the city and drawing both law enforcement and criminal factions into a high-stakes battle over control, survival and justice.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Texas will deter criminal mischief and work with local law enforcement to arrest anyone engaging in acts of violence or damaging property.
    NPR, NPR, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • His wife, Rebecca Haro, was charged with two crimes — murder and filing a false report — and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing the day Jake Haro will be sentenced.
    Madeline Morrison, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Rafael is a crime and breaking news reporter at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • John Sandweg, former acting director of ICE under President Barack Obama, said the tactics are not aimed at fighting criminality – they’re designed to increase overall arrests.
    Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Rank, whose company recently remade Ingmar Bergsson classic film Faithless as a European TV series, praised Adolescence for matching up the genre beats of a crime story with the higher concepts around criminality, toxic masculinity and family, and the one-shot filming techniques.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There's just something so irresistible about the lace-up flat with its air of rebellious discipline.
    Alex Sales, Glamour, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Singer Kelis has always been rebellious and non-conforming.
    Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Louisville police say anything that goes into the air or explodes is illegal for average citizens.
    James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 5 July 2017
  • Official fireworks shows took place over the city, and illegal pyrotechnics lit up the sky everywhere in between.
    Lisa Beebe, Los Angeles Magazine, 5 July 2017
Noun
  • That will kick off a public process in which the City Council will carefully consider which violations warrant the use of of administrative citations and how the fines will be scaled.
    Wes Burdine, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Currently, nearly 60,000 people are being held by ICE, almost half have no criminal record, only immigration violations.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump has made combating the opioid crisis, particularly the influx of illicit fentanyl, a central focus of his administration's policies.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Fox News exclusively embedded with the Austin Police Department as part of a nationwide human trafficking operation targeting illicit Chinese massage parlors.
    Brooke Taylor, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In early Christian thinking, its connotations of languor and listlessness, within the spirit no less than the body, lent it the status of a sin—a turning aside from God for the sake of earthly sorrow.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Nadal believes clay-court tennis at night is something like a sin against the sport, but 2020 was the first year in which Court Philippe-Chatrier held a session that went past darkness.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Lawbreaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lawbreaking. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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